The display on my MacBook Pro has recently died so I have been using the hdmi adapter to display the screen on my lg tv, which has been fine for a few day apart from the resolution not being ideal. Trying to fix this I un-ticked the Mirror Display option, making my tv a secondary display. Now I have no way of changing this back as all the options are on the primary display on my MacBook which has a dead screen!
Is there any way to restore it back to the mirrored image. Or a way of using the secondary display as a primary? I'm really stuck here and would appreciate any help.
Best Answer
The easiest way would be to set the screens to be mirrored again. There is a simple shortcut for this: Cmd+F1 (or Fn+Cmd+F1).
From there, you can open System Prefrences, go to the Arrangement-tab and un-mirror them if you need to, and set the external screen to be the main on (by dragging the white top-strip of the "screen" to the other screen).
Another, maybe better approach, is to use the keyboard shortcut Option⌥+F2, which will directly open System Prefrences to the Displays-board, which will show up on both screens with the option to Gather Windows.